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• E Is for Ethics: An Interview with Ian James Corlett

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Ian James Corlett, author of E Is for Ethics: How to Talk to Kids About Morals, Values, and What Matters Most There’s no denying that E Is for Ethics: How to Talk to Kids About Morals, Values, and What Matters Most sounds a bit like a Victorian primer, as filtered by, say, Mike Huckabee.  And that’s too ...
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• Rubik’s 360: a Puzzle That Will Spin Your Mind

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Rubiks 360. Photo: Hasbro, Inc. I was always a fan of the Rubik’s Cube: my dad played with one when I was younger. While we learned to make a checkerboard and a “six-spot” pattern with it when it was solved, it wasn’t until my dad brought home a heavily-Xeroxed, hand-drawn guide that I was finally able to ...
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• The LYTA Chair by Ronen Kadushin

  
  Best House Design — Authority: 420
  This LYTA Chair is a lightweight armchair design ideas that was designed by Ronen Kadushin for the German manufacturer Movisi. The chair weight is about 15kg and enables people at any age to move it around, something especially important to the growing elderly generation.Thanks to a specially developed fitting method, ...
  2 days ago

• It’s Always Dorkest Before the Dawn: Dork Tower Comes to GeekDad!

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Dork Tower, by John Kovalic It still amazes me when cool stuff like this happens to us, but I’m not one to look a gift-muskrat in the mouth. Starting this Monday, December 21st , GeekDad will be happy (nay, ecstatic!) to start presenting the thrice-weekly geeky comic joy that is Dork Tower, by John Kovalic. If ...
  2 days ago

• All About Hayabusa (The Spacecraft, Not The Halo Armor)

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Hayabusa (image: nasa.gov public domain) I know my kids get tired of me tilting my head out from behind my laptop screen and proclaiming the next great achievement from the space realms: “Hey kids, Hayabusa is on its way back!”. This time however, their little faces actually turned toward me and smiled: ...
  2 days ago

• Last Man On The Moon, For Now

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Apollo 17 (image via NASA, public domain) Thirty-seven years ago today, December 18, 1972, Eugene Cernan stepped into Apollo 17’s Challenger lunar module and became the last man to set foot on the moon. With Charlie Bolden , Lori Garver , and the Obama administration weighing the options for the future of ...
  2 days ago

• Frances Ancient Astronomers

  
  Intelligent Travel Blog — Authority: 134
  Frances Lascaux caves have long been celebrated as one of the worlds best examples of Paleolithic art. These 35,000-year-old animal depictions were thought to have represented life during the hunting season, but French researcher Chantal Jegues-Wolkiewiez has theorized that in actuality, these murals are a celestial ...
  2 days ago

• MIT’s SENSEable City Lab Brings Formula One Technology to Bicycles

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Image: MIT SENSEable City Laboratory During the climate conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday, MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory announced a new project for bicycles that uses an energy recovery technology similar to a program used in Formula One racing. The project, called the Copenhagen Wheel , is a regenerative ...
  3 days ago

• Gays vs. Darkies Round 2

  
  spEak Youre bRanes — Authority: 464
  We’ve decided to divvy up the gay execution thread , just because there is so much fail of so many sorts to go round. These people are just human beings like any other. The only difference is they choose to live a different kind of life. We should not discriminate them from others. They have the same rights like ...
  3 days ago

• Internet Marketing: Action Plan Is Needed To Succeed

  
  Start Your Own Online Business Presence — Authority: 141
  Have you ever thought about the possibility to work on your own time and especially to make money on your own time? Isnrsquo;t it marvelous? There would no need to wake up early at dawn. In this case your life, as we call it, will be put in your on terms. It is not a [...]
  3 days ago

• Final Fantasy XIII Gets Social

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  FFXIII (image: gotgame.com) With the release of Final Fantasy XIII looming on the horizon, our family are getting ready to set aside some substantial leisure time. Well, make that me and my wife - the kids are more excited about Mario Galaxy 2 I think. But with 80 hours of gameplay FFXIII is going to be a ...
  3 days ago

• Rescue the Scientists from The Isle of Doctor Necreaux

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Game in progress: seven turns left on the countdown clock The diabolical Doctor Necreaux is up to his old shenanigans: he captured the world’s top scientists and forced them to build a doomsday device on his secluded hideaway (a volcano, naturally). When he demanded that the world bow to him, however, a small team ...
  4 days ago

• Comic Spotlight on the New Teen Titans

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Happy New Comic Day! This week, I’m looking at a series that is part of the reason I fell in love with comics: The New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez . copyright DC Comics I collected this on first run starting in 1980, though I lost track of it when DC decided to shift the new stories to a ...
  4 days ago

• Happy Holidays from Armchair Videos

  
  Doobybrain.com — Authority: 574
  Happy Holidays from Armchair Videos on Vimeo . Like I’ve said before, I really, really, really like slow-motion videos.
  4 days ago

• Paul and Storm Channel TMBG in “It Might Be Christmas”

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  Paul and Storms "It Might Be Christmas" As Christmas approaches, and every store is filled with seasonal music, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question as all other geeks: When are They Might Be Giants going to come out with an album of Christmas music? Well, wonder no longer, my fellow geek, for such an ...
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• The Duplicitous Response to Tiger Woods Duplicity

  
  Piebald Life — Authority: 123
  So Im a little amused by the media-worlds reaction to the Tiger Woods saga. Heres the deal: if were going to worship sex as a god, its going to have consequences. Give most any man the kind of temptations that Tiger Woods would receive on any given weekend and 95.9% of them would do what he did. The thing that ...
  5 days ago

• The Armchair Liturgist: Ordination Convention

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 138
  You’ve just been promoted to director of liturgy for your diocese. You can accommodate all of the new bishop’s friends and sponsors–not to mention the faithful flock–but you have to book the local convention center to do it. You can, as Michael Sean Winters suggests, make this “ dreadful concession .” Or ...
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• Scoop: Who’s who on ‘Criminal Minds 2′

  
  The Ausiello Files — Authority: 715
  With potential Criminal Minds spinoff characters now a part of the mother ship’s spring agenda, the powers that be have put their heads together and begun looking for actors to fill out their would-be cast. Now it’s our turn. Who do you think should play these newbies, keeping in mind that, should the series be
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• The Armchair Liturgist: Shades of Rose

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 138
  All candle companies I’ve dealt with over the years have shipped us a pink item, not rose. Our parish’s Advent candle was pink, despite Fr Dennis’s insistence that it was rose. He conceded it wasn’t “manly” or “burly” enough for him to vary from Advent violet–which is an option, of course. In other ...
  5 days ago

• Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars GeekDad

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 712
  (image: John Booth/Kirk Demarais) To this day, I’m convinced that inside a panel in the back of my parents old station wagon (circa 1983) there are still Star Wars figures lodged, trapped forever. Or perhaps in the grubby hands of some other kid who tried to hide his toys back there. It’s a feeling that will ...
  6 days ago

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